The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-17
A HOME-RULE HANDBOOK.
How the Great Question Is Treated by Earl
Spencer and MIR. Gladstone.

How the Great Question Is Treated by Earl
Spencer and MIR. Gladstone.
LONDON, Oct 15.-Messrs. Gladstone and
Morley each contribute articles for the Home
rule Hand book" which will be issued on Mon
day. preparatory to Liberal federation meeting
in Nottingham. Earl Spencer, in the preface to
the work, says I'VE apt to think that
what worked well in England will work we'll in
Ireland. We do not allow for soreness of feel
ing Parliament, at its last session fell into
the same error. The English majority passed
measures to which the Irish political leaders and
a majority of the Irish vehemently opposed.
and which are only agreeable to a small minori-
ty in Ireland. This action only succeed if
the Irish can be persuaded to
relinquish the natural sentiment of homo rule,
which is stronger and more vigorous than ever
We hear that the land question is settled, that
dual ownership is abolished, that the tenants
are satisfied. and that home rule is no longer
actively supported. Without entering into the
whole argument, we don't know how Parliament
can safely pass large land-purchase scheme
without establishing some strong Irish govern
ment in Dublin to act between the imperial gov
ernment and the tenants" In conclusion. Earl
Spencer urges that home rule possesses q vital
ity which will survive the land question.
M s 1s;sb H;s.o article is entitled The
of Ireland for the past seven hundred years, and
deals with the necessity. during the present
criSlS OF becoming acquainted with the true
state Of the account between the islands of the
United Kingdom Up to the beginning of tbs
eighteenth century, he says. policy subordi-
nate to violence ss the standing instrument of
the government. The element of representation
began to assert itself after William ". Sim
plicity gradually superseded complexity. He
long ago advised students to study the events of
American independence. Now he recon-
mends them to ponder upon the
history of the eighteenth century, in
which Poynings's law heavily fettered Ireland.
OF three great nostrums. England had applied
extirpation and persecution. Both had entirely
failed, but confiscaton had done its work. A
great Protestant Irish landlordism was strongly
and affectually built up, but, while it held Ire
land fast it had undersigned results in the upris-
ing of the repressed principle of
tionAl life in form which, though ex-
tremely narrow and extravagantly i'm.
perfect. was urged with constitutional guar
antees. But progress was fearfully
slow, hemmed in all round by the
obstinate, unyielding pressure of selfish
interests Mr.. Gladstone then traces at
length the progress of measures designed to give
effect to the Irish aspirations to national life.
and gives q sketch of the history of the
eighteenth century. He says
LAS awful as is the force of bigotry, hidden
under tho mask of religion but fighting for
plunder aud power with all the advantages of
possession. prescription and extraneous support,
there is David who can kill this Goliath. That
conquering force lies in the principle of nation
ality. and growing sense of nationality prompt
cd the Irish Parliament and developed its ear